Talk:Richard Sibbes

Meaning
In "Life", paragraph 1, what does "In fact he was never deprived of any of his posts, due to his ingenuity of the system.[5]" mean? If it means he was "ingenuous", that is to say, perhaps, without guile or covert political intention, perhaps "ingenuousness" would be preferable to "ingenuity", to avoid the suggestion of cunning or contrivance more usually contained in the latter? And if so, then to which "system" does it refer? - to the University system, or to the Church of England's system, or to a "System" of Theology? Or perhaps to all of these, i.e. to the "Social System"? Then again, can one be ingenuous of anything? Surely ingenuousness is a general aspect of character, not a particular one? In what sense was his non-deprivation due to this - was this a time-elapsed credit upon the balance of his account, or was it rather the result of, or in consideration of, or owing to, his ingenuousness? I venture to suggest that "due to his ingenuity of the system" is an impenetrable expression, and ought to be replaced by something comprehensible, if anyone knows what the writer was attempting to say.Eebahgum (talk) 11:43, 20 September 2020 (UTC)